Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-02-18
borse Department.
PEDIGREE HUNTING.
THE CHARLES KENT MARE, WEBER s
TOM THUMB AND OTHER ORANGE
COUNTY, N. r., PEDlGREES.

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in New York. This | had known for
years, having stopped occasionally at it.
There is an air of home about it, and
there is an air of honesty about it, in the
amount you get for your money. MIR.
Daniel Sweeny is still alive, hale and
hearty, looking after the business as of
yore He said;
II owned the Kent mare in partnership
with Charley Kent. We bought her for
500 of Dick Carmen, wealthy builder,
who lived on Washington Heights. She
had been injured. She ran away whilst
Carmen owned her, and hipped herself.
Carmen had bought this mare previously
of Chas. Kent. paying him $500 for her.
Kent bought her of Bill Chivers. She
was a young mare when she was injured.
She was light bay, l4-2, not 10, 1--WE
noticed Mr.. Sweeny described Dutchman
as 10 hands; he is generally called 1913
or 1G); genteel built, and, | think, had
one white hind foot We bred her to old
Abdallah when he stood in New Jersey,
and raised two colts from her; both horse
colts. The last of these we sold with
the mare to Mr.. Seely of Orange county,
when it was six weeks old, for $780, The
first colt we sold as a gelding to Mr..
Speers. merchant on Pine street. Car
men used to own Modesty. Harry Wood
ruff said this Kent mare was the best
young mare he ever drove Mr.. Hen
drick Longstreet, Baptisttown, Mon
mouth Co., n. j., had the mare on his
farm when we bred her. | am sure we
bred her to Abdallah both times
This testimony of Mr.. Sweeny's cleared
up the history of the Kent mare very
thoroughly. In the record of her in
Wallaces American Trotting Register
there was a break in the chain of owner
ship, which cast a suspicion upon the
pedigree, especially so with us, as we
had found that many similar pedigrees
in that Register were incorrect. The lat
est record in Trotting Register is as fol
lows:
Chas. Kent mare foaled 1884; got by
imp. Bellfounder: dam One Eye by Bish-
Oh Hambletonian q. d.. Silvertail by
imp. Messenger: z. g. d., Old Black jim
supposed to be of pacing origin. Bred
by Josiah jackson, Oxford, Orange Co..
n. Y; passed through the hands OF
Peter Seely. Ebenezer Pray, VIM. Chivers
Banker. name not remembered. Chas
Kent. Jonas Seely. and died the property
of VIM. NJ. Rysdyk, Chester, y. Y
When four years old she trotted in , Al
under saddle.
1913. br. f. Belle by Webber's Ton
Thumb.
1915, bl. C. gelded, by Webber's Ton
Thumb.
ls47, ch. f. by Abdallah.
1S4S, br. f.. by Abdallah.
1919, b. c.. Hambletonan by Abdallah
1850, br. f.. went to Nd, by Young
Patriot.
1852, br. c., Tippo saib by Brooks
Black Hawk.
1853, ch. c., (ded), by Fiddler.
1856, br. c., gelded, by Plato.
1853, b. c., by Almack.
There seemed to remain only now TIN
question whether the mare sold to Mr.
Chivers by Mr.. Pray, as Mr.. Levines
son. We were told by Mr.. Akers, wh
has a wholesale store Oh Jay street, New
York, and is. besides. something of
breeder. the owner of Akers' Idol an,
other good ones, that there was VIM
Brooks. drayman, who knew the Ken
mare when colt and helped break hel
Mr.. Akers said he could vOuch for tn
honesty of this witness, and we Gale
upon him. Mr.. Brooks said:
IL was 10 years old last September
Ebenezer Seely of Orange county owne
Kent mare; when two years old she wa
sold ut auction, and bought by Josia
jackson, who kept her till three pas
When coming four years old a younge
brother of Ebenezer Seely, Peter SeelN
bought her. This was the spring {
1880, the year of the deep snow. Seel
and were dealing together. He brougf
her up to a man by name of Sutton
break. | put the first harness on he
hooked her to a one-horse sleigh an
drove her IA mile before we could turf
on account of deep snow. The snow WI
four feet deep on the side of the roa,
Sutton kept on driving her after that.
went to Newburgh that summer. IT
mare was sold to Chas. Kent, butche
Fulton market, for $500, reported. 81
was the best broke mare single you ev'
saw. This mare was sired by o
Bellfounder, who stood at Chester tw
days in the week, at Florida one or tw
the rest of the time in New Jersey,
think at Hamburger, and at Amity, n.
He came to stay two years, but didn
stay but one. Pray bought horse col
raised from same mare. First there we
two colts bred by f. Seely. His wi
sold oldest one to Chas. Kent for $50
Then there was filly, got by Whist
Jacket, horse that a man by the mar